
Harlem Renaissance
Nathan Irvin Huggins(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 10. May 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
390 pages
978-0-19-506336-3 (ISBN)
Description
A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad.
As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries, of one of the most provocative episodes in African-American and American history." Indeed, Huggins offers a brilliant account of the creative explosion in Harlem during these pivotal years. Blending the fields of history, literature, music, psychology, and folklore, he illuminates the thought and writing of such key figures as Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson, and W.E.B. DuBois and provides sharp-eyed analyses of the poetry of Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. But the main objective for Huggins, throughout the book, is always to achieve a better understanding of America as a whole. As Huggins himself noted, he didn't want Harlem in the 1920s to be the focus of the book so much as a lens through which readers might see how this one moment in time sheds light on the American character and culture, not just in Harlem but across the nation. He strives throughout to link the work of poets and novelists not only to artists working in other genres and media but also to economic, historical, and cultural forces in the culture at large.
This superb reissue of Harlem Renaissance brings to a new generation of readers one of the great works in African-American history and indeed a landmark work in the field of American Studies.
As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries, of one of the most provocative episodes in African-American and American history." Indeed, Huggins offers a brilliant account of the creative explosion in Harlem during these pivotal years. Blending the fields of history, literature, music, psychology, and folklore, he illuminates the thought and writing of such key figures as Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson, and W.E.B. DuBois and provides sharp-eyed analyses of the poetry of Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. But the main objective for Huggins, throughout the book, is always to achieve a better understanding of America as a whole. As Huggins himself noted, he didn't want Harlem in the 1920s to be the focus of the book so much as a lens through which readers might see how this one moment in time sheds light on the American character and culture, not just in Harlem but across the nation. He strives throughout to link the work of poets and novelists not only to artists working in other genres and media but also to economic, historical, and cultural forces in the culture at large.
This superb reissue of Harlem Renaissance brings to a new generation of readers one of the great works in African-American history and indeed a landmark work in the field of American Studies.
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Edition
Updated Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
halftones
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
554 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-506336-3 (9780195063363)
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Nathan Irvin Huggins
Harlem Renaissance
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Persons
Nathan Irvin Huggins was W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies and Director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University until his death in 1989. His books include Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass, Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery, and Voices From the Harlem Renaissance. Arnold Rampersad is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and is the author of The Life of Langston Hughes, among other titles.
Author
Professor of HistoryProfessor of History, Columbia University
Foreword
Professor of English and the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the HumanitiesProfessor of English and the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University
Content
Foreword by Arnold Rampersad
Introduction
Ch. 1: Harlem: Capital of the Black World
Ch. 2: The New Negro
Ch. 3: Heart of Darkness
Ch. 4: Art: The Black Identity
Ch. 5: Art: The Ethnic Province
Ch. 6: White/Black Faces - Black Masks
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Introduction
Ch. 1: Harlem: Capital of the Black World
Ch. 2: The New Negro
Ch. 3: Heart of Darkness
Ch. 4: Art: The Black Identity
Ch. 5: Art: The Ethnic Province
Ch. 6: White/Black Faces - Black Masks
Epilogue
Notes
Index